8 Facts From Kenneth Branagh's Career

1. #015

   Along with Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood and Roberto Benigni, he is one of seven people nominated for an Oscar for both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film: Welles for Citizen Kane (1941), Olivier for Hamlet (1948), Allen for Annie Hall (1977), Beatty for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981), Branagh for Henry V (1989), Eastwood for Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), and Benigni for Life Is Beautiful (1997).

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2. #020

   Kenneth Branagh was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011). Olivier was nominated for the award for his role as Dr. Christian Szell in Marathon Man (1976).

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3. #024

   As of 2024, Kenneth Branagh has appeared in two films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Dunkirk (2017) and Oppenheimer (2023). Early in his career, he also appeared as an uncredited extra in the Best Picture winner Chariots of Fire (1981).

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4. #028

   Kenneth Branagh shares two film roles with Laurence Olivier: Henry V and Hamlet. He and Olivier each directed their own performances in both films. Branagh also directed Sleuth (2007), a remake of the 1972 film starring Olivier; this time Michael Caine played Olivier's role while Jude Law took the second of the two roles Caine had played, having previously appeared in Alfie (2004). Branagh also played the lead in the Naxos audiobook CD of William Shakespeare's "Richard III", another role Olivier had played. Branagh portrayed Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011) and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the performance.

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5. #043

   In 1983 (the 1982 season), Kenneth Branagh was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer for "Another Country", and in 2004 he was nominated for "Edmond".

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6. #044

   Kenneth Branagh received a Special Award at the 1988 London Critics Circle Theatre Awards (Drama Theatre Awards).

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7. #046

   Kenneth Branagh is one of 13 actors nominated for an Oscar for portraying a real-life king. In chronological order, the others are: Charles Laughton for The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Robert Morley for Marie Antoinette (1938), Basil Rathbone for If I Were King (1938), Laurence Olivier for Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955), José Ferrer for Joan of Arc (1948), Yul Brynner for The King and I (1956), John Gielgud for Becket (1964), Peter O'Toole for Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Robert Shaw for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Richard Burton for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George (1994) and Colin Firth for The King's Speech (2010).

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8. #056

   Kenneth Branagh directed three actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Ciarán Hinds, Judi Dench and himself, all for Henry V (1989).

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